Fifth International Workshop on a Semantic Data Space for Transport

Co-located with the SEMANTiCS Conference 2023

Leipzig - 20th of September 2023

Sem4Tra Call for Papers

Integrated and intelligent transportation cannot be realized without a Mobility Data Space in which data flows thanks to fully automatic data integration. Such a Mobility Data Space improves every aspect of transportation from ticketing to navigation, from traffic to parking management and from car/bike sharing to door-to-door travel. The development of multimodal travel information, planning and booking services, and the interoperability between business applications are currently limited due to the fragmentation and incompatibility of interchange formats and protocols both within and across transport sectors. This workshop seeks to advance the Mobility Data Space through Semantic Web, Linked Data and Knowledge Graph techniques. In-scope are methods to query and reason over integrated data on the web that can help an end-user to plan and book a trip from A to B. We target researchers and practitioners who are contributing to the transformation of the transportation sector by proposing new solutions based on semantic techniques and technologies. The workshop is an opportunity for disseminating and discussing use cases and studies showing the application of semantic and web technologies in the transport domain to tackle the aforementioned challenges.

Topics

  • The Mobility Data Spaces
  • Query languages and methods for a Web of Transport Data
  • Creating automated alignments between datasets using the various specifications
  • Recommendations for mobility specification builders to raise interoperability between specifications
  • Alignments with existing or upcoming general-purpose Web API specifications such as W3C Web payments or Solid
  • Interfaces between enterprise data and the Semantic Web
  • Automatic contract negotiation for data reuse
  • The exploitation of Transport Data on the Web
  • Challenges and opportunities for route planning and ticketing
  • Personalized route planning taking into account data stored on your client or personal data space
  • Anonymization in the mobility space for data sharing
  • Benchmarking of Web Infrastructure
  • Comparing ticketing API architectures
  • Comparing route planning API architectures
  • Publishing and querying planned transport data and their live updates on the Web
  • Knowledge Graphs and Ontologies in the transportation domain
  • Aligning regional vocabularies with international reference domain models such as Transmodel, NeTEx, SIRI or DATEXII
  • Reusing existing linked datasets, such as Geonames, OpenStreetMap or Wikidata, for Mobility Data Space use cases
  • Bridging the gap with non-RDF specifications such as MobilityDataSpecification, General Transit Feed Specification, General Bike Feed Specification, TOMP API or MaaS API
  • Building a Knowledge Graph of the transportation domain by integration and conversion of heterogeneous data sources (e.g., National Access Points or local sources)
  • Semantic Technology Applications
  • Semantic technology applications and datasets on various aspects of smart mobility, such as logistics, infrastructure, navigation or booking/ticketing.
  • Semantic technologies for more explainable and transparent recommendations (e.g., route suggestion and driving planning)

Authors Guideline

Format

Authors can choose the best way to express their work, such as HTML or PDF. However, a LNCS-like layout should be provided.

Contributions

  • Long research/experience papers (10-12 pages)
  • Short research papers (4-6 pages)
  • Position papers (4-6 pages)
  • System/demo papers (4-6 pages)
  • Abstract from journal papers (2-4 pages)
  • 5 minutes lightning talk for project or idea (1 page max)

Review and Publication

Please, share your contribution before the deadline through EasyChair. The accepted contributions will be published in the proceedings of the workshop with CEUR. Follow the instructions to prepare the camera ready. Each accepted paper needs to be presented by one of the authors at the workshop.

Important dates

30 June, 2023

Submission papers

Submit your paper

29 July, 2023

Notifications

The notification and reviews from our Program Committee will be available.

14 August, 2023

Submission camera ready

Time to have your paper ready for being published. All the accepted paper will be published in the proceedings.

20 September, 2023

Event

Keynote, papers presentations, demo jam and a lot of discussion. Remember! If your contribution is accepted, it needs to be presented by one of the authors at the event.

Organizers

David Chaves Fraga

Senior Researcher, UPM & KULeuven

Mersedeh Sadeghi

Senior Researcher, University of Cologne

Shahrom Sohi

Researcher, WU

Julián Rojas

Postdoc Researcher, imec - IDLab UGent

Pieter Colpaert

Senior Researcher, imec - IDLab UGent

Program Committee

  • Alessio Carenini, Cefriel
  • Edna Ruckhaus, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
  • Irene Celino, Cefriel
  • Matteo Giovanni Rossi, Politecnico di Milano
  • Oscar Corcho, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
  • Ruben Taelman, imec - IDLab UGent
  • Alireza Javadian Sabet, Politecnico di Milano
  • Julián Arenas Guerrero, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
  • Shams Ghazy, University of Nottingham
  • Marjan Hosseini, University of Connecticut
  • Mahsa Shekari, Politecnico di Milano
  • Umutcan Simsek, STI Innsbruck
  • Axel Polleres, TU Vienna